Let's take a few moments and find a comfortable position.
If you're ready to go to sleep,
Perhaps lay down in bed or sit in a chair or sit on the floor somewhere comfortable.
You can turn the lights down low or turn them off completely.
Let's start to get ready to go to sleep.
In this meditation,
We'll do a body scan,
Starting at the top of the head,
Making our way down through the feet.
Let's begin.
In your comfortable position,
Close the eyes.
Let's take a deep inhale together and exhale,
Let it go.
Bring your awareness to the top of the head.
Perhaps begin to relax all the muscles across the forehead.
Relax the muscles around the eyes.
Relax the jaw.
Again,
Let's take a deep inhale and exhale,
Let it go.
Let's bring our awareness to the shoulders.
Relax the shoulders.
In the shoulders,
We carry the weight of the world,
All of our burdens and responsibilities.
Anything that you may be holding onto that happened today,
See if you can let it go from the shoulders.
Relax the heaviness of life from the shoulders and the upper back.
Think of melting down into the bed or into the chair.
Bring your awareness to the chest,
The heart space.
See if you can soften this area.
Across the heart space,
We store things like sadness,
Loss.
But in the heart space,
We also have the capacity to love and understand and forgive others.
With our awareness at the heart space,
Let's take an inhale,
Deep inhale of gratitude.
Exhale,
Let it go.
Bring your awareness to the belly.
Relax the belly.
Bring the awareness to the hips.
Allow the hips to be heavy.
Relax the hips.
Relax the inner groins,
The outer thighs,
The hamstrings.
Continue to bring your awareness down through the legs,
Past the knees,
The shins,
The ankles,
And the feet.
This human body is a miracle from head to toe.
It allows us to do so many amazing things.
We could never pay back the body for all that it does for us.
However,
We can give it rest.
Rest well.
Sleep well.
Have a beautiful night.
